Chipmaker Qualcomm told CES in Las Vegas what we already guessed – that the Internet of Things is still a long way off.

Speaking at CES in Las Vegas on Monday, Qualcomm president Derek Aberle believes the wearables market is still in a period of 'self-discovery' as companies try to work out the best combination of features and form factors to appeal to buyers.

He thinks that there will be shedloads of different wearable products coming out in the next few years which will be literally and figuratively pants.

"There's not going to be one right choice for wearables… in the next few years we'll see it consolidating, but it will take trial and error before we get there."

Health-related wearables will see particularly strong growth, and predicted an explosion in number of medical apps over the coming years.

Qualcomm chips are under the bonnet of more than 15 different wearable devices for sale in over 30 countries.

Aberle said Qualcomm will use what it has learned producing chips for mobile devices to bolster its position in the wearables market.

He said that the wearable market is closely connected to smartphones, so this allows Qualcomm to use its position in the smartphone space so we'll have to see how we go forward in the future.

#CES2014 is just kicking off here in Las Vegas. This year seems to be full of new product announcements as well as updates to existing products from companies big and small. Here at Fudzilla, we will be posting some of the latest news and photos from the show exclusively to our twitter feed in addition to our regular coverage. Be sure to follow us @FudzillaNews to get the latest updates from CES 2014.

Mediatek has big plans for 2014 and we will have a chance to see what it’s up to at the Consumer Electronics Show next week. Mediatek is hoping to double its tablet SoC shipments next year, introduce its first LTE parts and sneak up on Qualcomm in terms of market share.

At CES Mediatek will showcase the MT6290, an LTE Release 9 Category 4 modem, which is to be used alongside its SoCs. The 28nm modem is compatible with current Mediatek application processors, including the MT6592 octa-core. Mediatek will also show off the MT8135, a big.LITTLE design with two A7 and two A15 cores. It was announced several months ago. In addition to its unique quad-core big.LITTLE configuration, it packs PowerVR Series 6 graphics.

In addition to its more or less standard SoC rollout, Mediatek will also show off the world’s first UHD capable SoC for smart TVs, with 60Hz NEVC support. It should start sampling in the second half of the year. The company also claims to have the smallest SoC in the world, designed speficically for wearable gadgets. Inductive Qi wireless charging technology will be showcased as well, along with indoor positioning and smart home automation solutions.

It is a rather interesting approach. While some outfits like Apple, Samsung and Nvidia are focusing on a handful of high-end chip designs, Mediatek seems to want to get into every single niche, from the internet of things to high-end SoCs backed by in-house LTE.

AMD will have many of its executives present at Kaveri APU briefings shortly before CES at the Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas. Guess what - Nvidia chose the same hotel at the same time to hold its press event. This is pure coincidence, we are sure.

Nvidia has announced to the financial community that it plans to hold its press event in Cosmopolitan Hotel Las Vegas on Sunday January 5th at 8PM local time and that will be at the same time AMD should be finishing its presentation across the street. Nvidia plans to talk about Tegra and we are quite confident that the company will be willing to talk about some parts of Logan, or the Tegra 5 SoC. We are assuming Nvidia will focus on GPU performance. We don’t expect a real launch at this show, but a paper launch is a possibility.

Remember Logan comes with Kepler GPU inside and aims to be the fastest GPU on the market in 2014. Nvidia will webcast its event live available here. Apart from new Tegra mobile technologies Nvidia plans to showcase some gaming innovations and advanced automotive display technologies.

Nvidia and AMD will definitely have to fight for press coverage as it might be tough to attend two events at the same time, but it might be easy to sneak out, considering that they will be at the same hotel. This might even be payback for Montreal, when AMD invited a few members of the press to show them some cool technologies just across the street from Nvidia’s big gaming event.

E Ink and watchmaker Central Standard Timing spiced up CES 2013 with a rather interesting prototype that went live on Kickstarter as well, a 0.8mm thick (or rather thin) bracelet style wristwatch.

We must say that the CST-01, as CST decided to name it, does look pretty impressive as the entire thing is made by laminating thin, flexible components into a 0.5mm pocket etched in a of flexible stainless steel, just 0.8mm thin. The entire watch lacks any physical buttons or knobs as the entire setting is done on the included base/charging station.

It is powered by Infinite Power Solutions' 4V 0.7mAh Thinergy "Micro-Energy Cell" solid-state battery that can be recharged 10,000 times and lasts over 15 years. It charges up in 10 minutes and expected lifetime between charges is around a month.

CET also launched a campaign on the Kickstarter asking for US $200,000 and already scored almost half of it. Currently, US $99 pledges are already gone, but you can still score one in white or black color for US $129.

It is definitely one of the more interesting Kickstarter projects to show up in recent weeks. You can check it out here.

As expected, Asus has announced its innovative Qube Google TV device that already showed up in a bunch of leaks and an FCC filing.

Unfortunately, Asus will not host a press event for the Qube at CES 2013, but the company has released a brief press release taunting Qube's unique "Qube interface" which apparently displays functions by rotating on-screen cube shape, like we did not see that coming. This, of course, has not stopped those that were curious enough, so Anandtech managed to score a hands-on as well as some details and specs. The Marvell Armada 1500 platform is the heart of the Qube, two HDMI ports are on board, as well as Ethernet, WiFi and USB ports. It also features a full QWERTY remote with microphone for voice commands and gyro for motion control.

Qube will offer both motion control and voice search that integrates Google Play, Chrome, Youtube in one compact device as well as access to Netflix and Amazon Instant Video.

The advanced remote control supports motion sensing for gaming and other applications, while it will also be possible to control the Qube with the Mobile Remote app available for Android smartphones.

Asus will also throw in an extra 50GB of WebStorage cloud space with every Qube. All we need now is the official price and release date. Anandtech noted that the Qube could end up somewhere in the US $100-120 price range.

It looks like there will be a bit of a battle between Microsoft's business chums as to who will get the first Windows 8 tablet into the shops. According to the Verge Lenovo has said that it is flat out trying to make sure that it is the first manufacturer to release" a consumer tablet running Microsoft's forthcoming operating system upgrade.

Lenovo's rumoured tablet will have an Intel chip and it might even be the IdeaPad Yoga which was seen at CES in January. If that was the case, Lenovo will have a 13.3-inch convertible that also functions as an ultrabook.

But if that it is the case it is going up against tin box shifter Michael Dell who has made a similar promise. In fact Dell is certain he can get an enterprise-targeted Windows 8 tablet "on the exact day" the OS ships.

None of them appears to have factored in that Microsoft has a new chum, Nokia, which has also said it wants to have a tablet out pretty smartish, and might be getting some help from Vole. The dark satanic rumour mill suggests that Nokia is working on a 10-inch Windows 8 tablet for release before the year is out. The maker of expensive printer ink HP and Acer are also in the running.

It will all be a close run thing. The latest date that is being touted for Windows 8 is an October 22 launch with tablets needing to be in the shops ready for the Christmas rush. This means that all of the manufacturers could have one ready in time.

We were able to benchmark Intel's first Atom powered smartphone using Benchmark PI. As you can see from the picture below it scores 743ms in Pi. The HTC Thunderbolt (Snapdragon 1GHz) clocks in at 888ms, and the LG Optimus 2X (Tegra 2) clocks at 550ms. Of course, lower scores are better.

It looks like the phone is still slower than Tegra 2 devices, although Lenovo states that before the phone is released the OS will be more refined, so we could see better performance once it hits shelves.

Ivy Bridge demonstration was a video. It was spotted by a few editors and after checking the lead up, we can now confirm that the boys were right. Mooly Eden ended up with Ivy Bridge video of Formula 1 game.

We heard that video was a failsafe mechanism that companies sometimes have at keynotes, in case that something goes wrong. In fact, there is a good chance that the Vice president with a hat, Mr. Eden, wasn’t even aware that he was switched back to video.

We don’t know what went wrong and why they did a video and not a live feed. While it may have been a driver related issue, it made Mooly Eden look like Milly Vanilli and we are sure he was not the least bit happy about the whole thing.

Stil,l sources close to Intel tell us that Ivy Bridge is shipping to partners and that it launches inside many desktop and notebook systems in April and a bit later for dual cores.

Intel made a scandal of a CES 2012 so far, and it is currently dodging all kind of conspiracy teories that were born after the video.

In the last year, if not even longer, Nvidia has talked more about Tegra than any of their other products. This is despite the fact that anyone who has seen at their balance sheets knows that they make money mostly on Geforce and Quadro products.

After the keynote, we managed to ask Jen Hsun Huang, Nvidia CEO, a single question. We asked, where is Kepler? The answer we got was that we have to be "patient" about it.

Furthermore, we discovered that there was an internal discussion to showcase Kepler at this keynote but Nvidia decided not to. As far as we know, it was a business decision to wait, and Kepler is production scheduled to launch at a later date. Current estimates are that it will launch in first half of 2012, possibly sometime late in Q1.